Their population is endangered in the wild for two major reasons. One reason which is a concern world wide, for many reasons, is deforestation. People have been destroying the land for various reasons, mostly for agricultural area. The forests where the orangutans live is very important, because unlike gorillas, orangutans can not travel far by land. Orangutans usually travel through the trees, and when they are cut down, the orangutans have no place to live, and no place to find food to survive. Another reason for their major decline in population is because smugglers come to the islands, and kill of the mothers t

A handful of rehabilitation sites, such as Tanjung Puting National Park, in Borneo, help return orangutans to the wild after confiscation from smugglers or private owners. National parks and reserves on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo work to save orangutans and many other species. Field studies, such as the work conducted by Birute Galdikas in Borneo, help to increase our knowledge about these fascinating creatures and help insure their survival.

Many projects are working to save orangutans. The American Zoo and Aquarium Association's SSPs (Species Survival Plans) are special programs designed by a team of zoo and wildlife professionals to help orangutans, and many other endangered species. The SSPs outline breeding plans, work to increase public awareness and education, help conduct research, and in some cases, organize programs to reintroduce captive-bred wildlife into secure habitats.

Orangutans are the only true arboreal animals in the world. They stay in trees for most of their lives, and are considered very solitary or semi-solitary. Because the trees can not support the weight of more than one adult male, and because they need a large area to forage over they travel alone. Mothers can travel with their baby on their back. Sub-adult orangutans may play with each other or the siblings. The territory of an individual adult male may overlap with the territories of several females. Orangutans have large home territories, but usually travel over only a small portion of that territory on any given day. Most of their day is spent foraging for food and resting. Males have large laryngeal (throat) sacs that are used for their vocalizations. Orangutans have at least 18 vocalizations. Males give "long call' vocalizations. The exact function of these calls is unknown. They may serve to attract mates, announce the presence and location of a high-ranking male, or may express discontent on the part of the utterer. When males do occasionally meet they will exhibit aggressive displays--stare, inflate pouches, shake branches. If one male does not back down, they may grab and bite each other. Orangutans sleep in the forks of trees where they pull in other branches to form a nest. Chimpanzees build similar nests, but orangutans differ in that they often build a roof out of branches to provide shelter from heavy downpours. They will usually find a new place to sleep and make a new nest each night. Orangutans will occasionally build daytime nests also.

o get babies which they then sell off in the United States, and other countries. During the trip not many survive, in fact, only one in nine orangutans that are brought by smugglers survive. Once they are brought to the countries they are sold off at about the equivalent to twenty thousand US dollars, yet the buyers do not know that orangutans do not make very goo

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